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Albany Community School

Team Mission

At ACS we strive to learn about ways to better protect and care for our planet.

Together we know we can make positive changes to ensure a better future. Through our learning we can make little changes everyday that will add up to a lot. We know that real change takes work from every member of a community.

Hi guys!! You are doing so well but I want to tell you about a change this year...different from last year. All the challenges you see on the board are the only ones you will see for the first 4 weeks...you won't get new ones every week so slow down...have fun...play well...and don't worry about having to get through all of them this week. Here is a little blog you should all read that Kathy put up that explains to all the players how to play this year. :) https://vermontivate.com/news/top-5-tips-playing-vermontivate
if the link doesn't work you can find this on the home page under BLOG post...take a look. xoxoxoxoxooxxoxooxox
karen

Hi Albany team I've come to tell you about why kindness is important. Although kindness can be extremely difficult to enact with how angry people can make you, but being kind to others can make you very happy for what you have done. It has been scientifically proven that people who are kind to people are happier after being kind to others.

Albany, albany,albany. Where to start. Our team has come a long ways. Some of the kids that weren't really into Vermontivate last year are doing very good. We are already beating last years score. And it's the second day. Keep writing!

We are doing great guys! Each and every single one of you! I have read through and found many great ideeas by all of you guys. You are some of the best teammates ever! Keep it up, lets go Albany Wolves!

I am playing vermontivate this year for three main reason. 1. find ways to make our community better 2. learn new ways to make a difference at a local and individual level. 3. help my team be successful by creating events and encouraging my teammates to focus on our school motto grit, excellence and kindness. These three things will help our team a lot.

Lets make this a great Vermontivate Season I challenge everyone on our team to try to do at least one kind act every day for someone in the school. Try to challenge yourself and pick new people everyday. You might leave someone a nice note telling them something great they have done. You might help a teacher and offer to help pick up the classroom at the end of the day. What other act of kindness can you think of team.

Hi Mikey100 winning is great, but it is the steps you take to win that make the win even more important. If i was in a race and everyone just stopped to let me win that win would not be as great as if i trained hard and won the race fair. Keep up the hard work and find ways to make vermontivate work for you.

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Team-Building

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Team Goals

Solar and alternative energy

Why we chose this goal:

We've looked at solar for our school before....there seems to be some difficulty with our small size and the larger amount of energy that even one solar array will produce....but I would like to look at this again. Maybe we need to focus on a small solar farm for the town itself.

Most of all it would be nice to have a series of public awareness film evenings open to everyone to discuss the importance of alternative energies for our planet and the future. Also some discussion about the new composting regulations that will be coming in 2016.

Create less food waste

Why we chose this goal:

Team ACS already composts their food so we need to focus on creating less waste.

Our school makes yummy meals so it shouldn't be difficult to eat all that you take.

So many forget that reduce is also an important part of the sustainable picture. We are doing pretty good at recycling---we need to focus on the starting point and reduce what we take from our planet.

I'm going to talk with the students about setting personal goals to take less and use/eat all that you take.